Zandile Ntobela, a member of the Mpondo Xhosa, born in 1986 in Durban in KZN. She considers The Eastern Cape, South Africa as her ancestral home

Zandile art reflects her ambition, strength and dedication, never shy to embrace challenges. Zandile constantly challenges herself in her unrelenting quest for recognition of her art

Internationally recognised as an artist in 2013 in Washington DC at an opening of an exhibition, Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and The Art of Independence, at The Smithsonian. Zandile is one of the 5 artists who are recognised as creating a new genre, The Ndwango.

Her art is now part of major Museum collections and is highly sought after by private collectors.